{"slug":"history","tag":"history","variants":["history"],"description":"No description yet","count":8,"kinds":{"term":6,"person":2},"related":[{"slug":"survivorship","tag":"survivorship","shared":8},{"slug":"rejuvenation","tag":"rejuvenation","shared":6},{"slug":"advocacy","tag":"advocacy","shared":3},{"slug":"care-plan","tag":"care-plan","shared":1},{"slug":"epidemiology","tag":"epidemiology","shared":1},{"slug":"late-effects","tag":"late-effects","shared":1},{"slug":"nhs","tag":"nhs","shared":1},{"slug":"paediatric","tag":"paediatric","shared":1},{"slug":"uk","tag":"uk","shared":1}],"records":[{"id":"rejuv-history-cure-is-not-enough","kind":"term","name":"Cure is not enough: when late effects stopped being an afterthought","route":"/terms/rejuv-history-cure-is-not-enough/","tldr":"Children started surviving cancer in the 1960s, and within a decade the doctors who had cured them began writing down what the cure had cost. The phrase that stuck, from a 1975 paper by Giulio D'Angio, is that cure is not enough."},{"id":"rejuv-history-seasons-of-survival","kind":"term","name":"Seasons of Survival: the 1985 essay that named the problem","route":"/terms/rejuv-history-seasons-of-survival/","tldr":"A physician who had been treated for cancer wrote four pages in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1985 saying that the time after treatment was unmapped territory with hazards of its own. It is the paper the whole field dates itself from."},{"id":"rejuv-history-survivorship-movement","kind":"term","name":"The founding of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, and the word survivor","route":"/terms/rejuv-history-survivorship-movement/","tldr":"Twenty-three people met in Albuquerque in October 1986 and set out to replace the phrase \"cancer victim\" with \"cancer survivor\". The definition they chose, a survivor from the day of diagnosis for the rest of life, is the one the National Cancer Institute uses today."},{"id":"rejuv-history-lost-in-transition","kind":"term","name":"Lost in Transition: the 2006 report that defined survivorship care, and the care plan it invented","route":"/terms/rejuv-history-lost-in-transition/","tldr":"The 2006 Institute of Medicine report defined survivorship care, made ten recommendations, and invented the survivorship care plan. The plan became an accreditation standard, and then the randomised trials of it were negative."},{"id":"rejuv-history-ncsi-england","kind":"term","name":"The National Cancer Survivorship Initiative in England, and the Recovery Package","route":"/terms/rejuv-history-ncsi-england/","tldr":"England ran a national programme on life after cancer from 2007. It produced a named bundle of four things every patient should get at the end of treatment, and a 2013 report that measured how rarely they got them."},{"id":"rejuv-history-counting-survivors","kind":"term","name":"Counting the people who live after cancer, and why the number is not a detail","route":"/terms/rejuv-history-counting-survivors/","tldr":"The United States counts its cancer survivors each year and publishes the figure: 18.6 million in May 2025, projected to reach 22.4 million by 2035. Europe cannot produce an equivalent number, and that is a service-planning problem rather than a statistical one."},{"id":"fitzhugh-mullan","kind":"person","name":"Fitzhugh Mullan","route":"/people/fitzhugh-mullan/","tldr":"Wrote the 1985 essay that gave cancer survivorship its name and its first framework, then co-founded the organisation that changed what people treated for cancer are called."},{"id":"ellen-stovall","kind":"person","name":"Ellen L. Stovall","route":"/people/ellen-stovall/","tldr":"Led the survivorship movement's organisation for sixteen years and co-edited the Institute of Medicine report that defined what survivorship care is."}]}